What is a "audio jack outlet" called?

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A board of 100 jacks and a phone lady plugging in plugs to make connections. She was pushing a male plug into the female socket in the wall.

Extension cords have both plugs on one end and sockets on the other.

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It is a "miniature (or subminiature) phone jack", (female).

What diameter the plug is can vary, so measure that. I see

The standard sized (and rare these days) phone plug is 1/4" diameter, and I believe that there is also a (even more rare) 3/16" diameter.

Some are also set up to close or open extra contacts as you plug in the male connector.

Here is one three circuit one 1/8" diameter by Switchcraft to be found at

They are $3.42 each.

Mounting is through a hole in the panel, secured by the knurled nut visible spun up against the body.

It looks as though this one is the stereo (three circuit) with two switch contacts made or opened as you insert the plug. (Though the illustration does not show the extra solder terminals required for that.)

Assuming that the URL found by the search is not a volatile one, you can simply try:

You can find several on their catalog page 983

Measure your plug, so you know which one you really need.

You can likely even find them still at Radio Shack. :-)

Read up on the Wikipedia page:

to see lots of versions.

Good Luck, DoN.

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A: Because it is counter-intuitive and difficult to read.

It comes from the phone industry. The RJ in an RJ-45 interconnection designates "Registered Jack".

And according to what I've gleaned from this conversation, both ends are properly called "Plug." I've been in this business well over thirty years, and in my experience, a male is a plug and an a female is a jack, but I suppose I'm not too old to change.

Now, what do we think about people who "Shut on the light?"

There are hermapoditic connectors, like 7 mm RF and Switchcraft 2501 series.

And, to go even farther back in time, General Radio used to make the GR874 series RF connectors for reasonable frequency ranges, and the GR900BT series for really high (for the day) frequencies.)

O.K. Apparently, Delta still makes 874 compatible connectors.

Here is the end view of an 874 connector:

And here for the GR900:

Enjoy, DoN.

The convention on Usenet is to place your response *underneath* the passage you're replying to -- much like the way your mother can often be found underneath the UPS man.

I still have some GR cables. :)

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q: "What is a "audio jack outlet" called?"

"Radio Shack"

More like a 'Magic Jack Outlet' ;-)

Smooth, slick. Me like.

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And I have a bunch of adaptors from GR-874 to things like type-N, BNC and even double binding post, as well as some in-line attenuators and somewhere even a component test enclosure -- a GR-874 on a plate with a spring-loaded cup over the connection points for the component.

No GR-900 connectors, however.

Oh yes -- I also have a few unused GR-874 cable connectors (for RG-58 cable) and the assembly tool kit for them.

What I don't have is the spring ribbons designed to wrap around a mated pair to keep them from separating.

Enjoy, DoN.